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    LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

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    I have solved my cross flashing issue. But not after my favorite mainboard brand Gigabyte disappointed me.

     

    I learned how easy it is to make a USB pendrive EFI bootable. Just drop this binary into that flash drive FAT's root directory and rename it to <shellx64.efi>.

    Also, from Roderick W. Smith's site rodsbook.com I learned that Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI implementation is one of the worst that Mr Smith has encountered. So, if you have a Gigabyte mainboard forget EFI Shell, it probably won't work. It has cost me several hours today.

     

    I eventually solved it by inserting the LSI 9240-8i into the PCI Express x16 slot of an Asrock H81 Pro BTC mainboard. (A mainboard I almost forgot I still own. A relic from my scrypt mining days.) After entering the BIOS and going to the last menu "Exit", I selected the bottom option "Launch EFI Shell from filesystem device". It gave me a <SHELL> prompt. I selected my USB pendrive by typing "FS0:". I browsed to the location of my sas2flash.efi, 2118it.bin and mptsas2.rom files and executed the following two commands;

    sas2flash -o -f 2118it.bin -b mptsas2.rom
sas2flash -o -sasadd 500605b0xxxxxxxx (replace the xx's with the SAS address from your card)

     

    Identical to BetaQuasi's M1015 Cross flashing instructions except that I used <sas2flash.efi> instead of <sas2flsh.exe>.

    Unraid 5.0.5 has identified the card and the attached drives. I'm a happy camper ! ;-)

     

    I stopped using Gigabyte after my first flash ;) Asrock or MSI and nothing else...

    LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

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    Ok this are the files that made me do a succesfull flash on the D2607 Fujitsu controller (ordered januari 2014 from fujitsu)

    http://rapidelectro.be/d2607.tar.gz

     

    !!!FIRST WRITE DOWN YOUR SASADDRESS!!!

     

    and then after starting up in dos I did

    megarec -writesbr -o sbrh200.bin

    then

    megarec -cleanflash -o

    end then I used

    sas2flash.exe -o -sasadd SASADDRESS -f 182118IR.BIN -b 18mptsas2.rom

     

    This will actually not flash the bios but that's no problem :)

     

    After that I used the latest flash utility + bios + firmware (P18 in my case) and just did

    sas2flash.exe -o -f 2118IR.bin -b mptsas2.rom

    everything went well and I was able to go in to the bios and configure my raid without the slow shit from Fujitsu...

     

    Only one port (4 disks) works after this method!

     

    PS.

     

    It took me about 4 days to get this working, making this by far the most expensive 'raid' controller I have ever owned... And it's still a slow peace of shit. I will never ever buy one of this crappy cards and or buy anything from LSI ever again in my life. For twice the amount you get a decent real raid controller from Areca or 3Ware making it even possible to do RAID5/6/50/60 and I will stick with 3Ware and Areca for the rest of my life from now on!

     

    LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

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    Stupid controller! I have tried following steps more then once with the D2607 with a revision B2 chipset

     

    megarec -writesbr -o empty.bin

    megarec -cleanflash -o

    reboot

    sas2flash.exe (v7) -o -f 2118it.bin (v7) -b mptbiosthingy (v7)

    mfg page 2 error

     

    Samething if i do this steps with the sbr200 file

     

    Version p18 is for the record online for download...